we’re proud to announce the third release candidate for the upcoming 2.4 series of darktable, 2.4.0rc2!
the github release is here: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-2.4.0rc2.
as always, please don’t use the autogenerated tarball provided by github, but only our tar.xz. the checksum is:
$ sha256sum darktable-2.4.0rc2.tar.xz
dcb56e1eb2c10aa9fe64ea9ba3e806e3da3a3a0ebb47646a07e1838b88f15949 darktable-2.4.0rc1.tar.xz
$ sha256sum darktable-2.4.0rc2.dmg
5ad1c355c04d8a42bab7c2879cba92891dbdd0a89b8fe0ff2ea18f1f8b592f15 darktable-2.4.0rc1.dmg
$ sha256sum darktable-2.4.0rc2.dirty-win64.exe
a4cd63e9e44f029d4a85b430c5fdaf49e110c1ebe0a9cfc51ac2bf86ebac41cf darktable-2.4.0rc1.exe
Important note: to make sure that darktable can keep on supporting the raw file format for your camera, please read this post on how/what raw samples you can contribute to ensure that we have the full raw sample set for your camera under CC0 license!
changes since rc1
- Fix a bug in haze removal that resulted in black areas in the exported image
- Support Sony ILCE-7RM3
- Make calls to exiv2’s readMetadata thread safe to not crash randomly
- Don’t hide the mode combobox in the exposure module, just disable it
- Change the styling of insensitive bauhaus widgets
- Fix spurious segfault in local contrast
- Don’t show an error popup on Windows when the CD drive is empty
and the changelog as compared to 2.2.0 can be found below. Some of the fixes might have been backported to the stable 2.2.x series already.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.darktable.org/2017/12/darktable-2-4-0rc2-released/